Andrew Lee <and...@linux.org.tw> writes: > It would be nice if lintian can just check and report warning. If any of > the uncommon applications that are so deeply integrated into one > particular desktop can just ignore or overwritten the lintian warning.
Even if the feature is rarely needed, I think that adding a Lintian tag for a feature that has a valid purpose and telling people to override if they really want to use the feature is a bad design. I realize that we're doing that now with setuid programs, but I think that's a special case due to the security implications. I'm very reluctant to add something else like that. Among other things, it's exactly this sort of check that gets people to stop using Lintian at all because they don't want to add overrides for intentional uses of features. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
